Complex Numbers

Revisited: "Plus Ça Change..."

My dip into the past this morning takes me all the way back to January of 2022, when I was cold and disease raged across the land. So, not much different from today: "Plus Ça Change..." 

In it, I responded to a then-current prompt from "JAFBG"  [XGC], which is still active and other bloggers should totally check out the active prompts.

The prompt was: "Imagine the pandemic never happened. How do you think your life would be different now, if at all?"

Most of us have forgotten all about it, apparently.

...okay, look, I'd like to say that the only thing that would be different is that I wouldn't have canceled my gym membership. But let's be real: I still would have canceled my gym membership. Eventually. Because I'm lazy.

I still haven't re-enrolled. Laziness is my only excuse there. There was a long stretch, before everything went to hell, when I was going there every day. I can't say I miss it, only that I feel like I could benefit from going back.

Before the pandemic, I was going out only rarely, ordering delivery groceries, and buying most of my shit from Amazon. Now, I go out only rarely, order delivery groceries, and buy most of my shit from Amazon.

I just placed a grocery delivery order today, and I'm expecting a package from Amazon later. I thought about weaning myself off that site, but... nah.

I will continue to wear this mask in public, regardless of what diseases may or may not be circulating.

Yeah, I need to stop making promises.

I probably would have traveled more, but even that would have led to me being, right now, sitting here at home wishing winter would end already because fuck, I've had it with winter.

You know how stores keep stocking holiday items earlier and earlier every year? Well, "I've had it with winter" is now my default state, year-round.

Hm. One thing that might be different. I might not be so completely, utterly done with approximately half of the population of the US.

Even if that had been the case, I'd be completely and utterly done now.

I might still have some tiny thread of hope for the future.

Let's see... nope. All gone.